Nigel and Harry Oliphant were, with their brothers Marcus and Donald, sons of Harold George Olifent, a prominent Theosophist, editor of the Public Service Review.
Love, technical instructor with the PMG Department,[6] but specialised in ultraviolet light sources: from longer wavelength (UVA and UVB) lamps for fluorescent mineral prospecting (eg.
scheelite),[7] geological research, quality assurance and forensic work to short wavelength (UVC) germicidal lamps, as used in the food industries to control mould spores on meat, cheese, and bread.
[12] The walls for their workshop were fabricated in situ from ready-mixed concrete poured by the brothers into a steel formwork system devised by R. A. Wilson of Bowden, a method made particularly attractive by the post-war shortage of skilled labor.
[14] Harold George Olifent (12 September 1876 – 1963) married Beatrice Edith Fanny Tucker ( – 29 October 1951) on 27 December 1900, and had a home at 50 Angas Road, Westbourne Park.